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| The Bully in the Graveyard by Sarah Cowan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. Cast of school children plus a ghost - who might be an adult or a large child (assuming that you don't have a real ghost to hand). |
| Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggestions for seven pieces of backing music are included in the Producer's Copy of the scripts. (The cast is not required to sing, but might do so! One dance is suggested.) Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | School play about bullying. A serious theme, but lots of comedy, and strong characters. |
| Synopsis | Billy and his friends are picked-on by Preson's gang. Their response is to demonstrate to the bullies what it is like to be frightened. |
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| Cadbury Angels by Alison Smith |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 17. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 105 minutes. [Estimated!] The estimated run time allows time for 15 songs. |
| Music | 15 songs are suggested in the producer's copy of the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length play with songs. Set some time in the 2000s and in the 1940s.
First published in 2022, revised 2023. |
| Synopsis | Clearing the house after her mother has died, a daughter finds some strange treasures packed away: letters, some nylons, a ball of chewing gum? She's uncovered a secret of her mother's past - she was a Cadbury Angel. |
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female role - Venus! - but others could be cast female. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
| Style | Musical comedy play for kids - though the songs are optional.
A shorter version of the same play is available.
First published in 2011, revised in 2012. |
| Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Full Version].
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| Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version] by Nicholas Richards and Timothy Hallett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. Chorus. Flexible - the pirates roles could easily be shared by a smaller number and other doubling is possible. On the other hand, there is scope for pirate and soldier chourses. Only one specfied female roles but some could be cast female. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with piano and vocal scores for six songs. |
| Style | Comedy play for kids - with optional songs.
(A longer version of the same play is available.) |
| Synopsis | An older Caesar is recounting his campaigns in Gaul to a bored scribe, who suggests that it might benefit Caesar's public image to tell a tale of his younger days... Something dashing, perhaps, involving pirates? As it happens, Caesar does know such a story...
Great fun (and secretly educational) with a genuine event in Caesar's life. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Vocal recording for five tracks and six rehearsal tracks (accompaniment with an instrument playing the vocal line) for the songs from Caesar and the Pirates [Short Version].
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| Captain Kelly's Diamond by Andrew Weaver |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Production notes list recommended songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Large cast one act play for schools. |
| Synopsis | Pirate captain Kelly returns from his latest venture with a huge diamond. He's planning to split it with his first mate as soon as he can, but an old flame appears and demands the diamond ring he promised her. The pair hide the diamond in a stuffed parrot, but are blackmailed by fellow pirate Blackbeard who wants the diamond for himself. They all end up with their just desserts. |
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| The Case of the Missing School by Sue Gordon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 38. Chorus. Very flexible casting - a set of core characters plus episodes with other characters, which make doubling possible. Several flexible chorus groups. |
| Run Time | Around 65 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for songs/music. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Comedy play aimed squarely at primary schools. A complete core script with suggestions and opportunities for customisation to fit a specific school. |
| Synopsis | When a powerful evil magician makes the local primary school disappear, along with the letters from the school sign, three schoolchildren (with the help of the School Fairy Godmother) vow to find all the letters and restore their school. But the aptly- named Evil One has hidden the letters in bizarre places, leading the children back through history, around the world, and even into space in their attempts to rebuild their sign. A script for schools with opportunities for the children to experiment with improvisation and their own creativity. |
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| The Cautionary Tale of Mary Contrary by Cheryl Barrett |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 19 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Song suggestions for four songs are included in the Producer's copy of this script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A short rhyming comedy play with a moral, for children, with two simple settings. |
| Synopsis | Once upon a nursery crime - Mary Contrary demonstrates selfish actions, contrary ways and uncaring attitude to the environment, which lead to her eventual demise. |
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| Charles Dickens' Christmas Eve by Wende Feller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the male characters is a child. The script has a cast of 18, but divided across the two acts so that the cast of 9 from the first act can double to perform the second act. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | A series of Christmas Carols is recommended in the script. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Two act period piece. Single set with split-level stage. |
| Synopsis | The first act focuses on Christmas at Bracebridge Hall, adapted from material by Washington Irving, Jane Austen and Wilkie Collins. The second act is Wende Feller's adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens |
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| Cheer Up, Santa! by Helen Spencer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 35. Chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 32 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The producer's copy of this script contains suggestions for seven songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one act musical Christmas ensemble play for schools |
| Synopsis | It's Christmas Eve, and the elves are hurriedly making last minute preparations before Santa sets off on his deliveries. Mrs Claus, however, finds he is thoroughly miserable, and doesn’t feel like bothering this year. The elves need to think of a plan to make Santa change his mind, and time is running out! |
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| Christmas At Petersburg by George Douglas Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One of the characters has the same surname as the author. This is not entirely coincidental. |
| Run Time | Around 72 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script comes with two original scores. Additional excerpts from Christmas carols could be used at the discretion of the production. |
| Style | Historical drama, exporing some of the depths of the American Civil War. |
| Synopsis | The Confederates have been besieged at the railhead of Petersberg for months, reducing food, clothing and ammunition to the barest minimum. Into this desperate situation, on Christmas Eve, come two young girls from opposite sides of the war, each looking for a lost and injured father. |
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| Extras | The following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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